Ludolf von Sudheim, Journey in the Holy Land 28
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Caesaream Palestinam

,

Caesarea Palaestina

,

Caesarea

, and

Caesarea of Palestine

are directly attested at Ludolf von Sudheim, Journey in the Holy Land 28. This passage was written ca. 1336-1345 C.E. possibly in Palestine. Ludolf von Sudheim, a cleric in Westphalia during the early 14th century, travelled extensively in the Eastern Mediterranean in the coterie of a knight who served the Armenian king. The account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1336-1341 is in many ways derivative, but it includes interesting details of archaeology and natural history. In this passage he recounts the trip south from Carmel through Caesarea to Arsuf.

De monte Carmelo transito quodam flumine, qui Iordanis pro parte est origo, pervenitur in Caesaream Palestinam, quae quondam dicta fuit Dor, nunc Caesarea Palaestina vocata, sed funditus nunc eversa. In hac civitate pulchra ecclesia de domo Cornelii, quem Petrus ad fidem convertit, fuit facta. Eadem civitas, terra sancta recuperata, in portionem cuiusdam militis de partibus istis, nomine de Horne, fuit devoluta, cuius generis adhuc temporibus meis vixit vidua, quam saepius bene vidi et de hac materia tractavi. De Caesarea proceditur et pervenitur in civitatem quondam pulchram, sed nunc desertam, Castrum peregrini vocatam, sed olim Assur dictam.

[Ed. Heuyks 1851]

After passing over Mount Carmel one crosses a river, which is one of the sources of the Jordan, and arrives at Caesarea of Palestine, which was once called Dor and now Caesarea of Palestine, but it is utterly destroyed. In this city there was a fair church made out of the house of Cornelius, whom Peter converted to the faith. This same city, upon the recovery of the Holy Land, had come into the possession of a certain knight of these parts named de Horne, whose son-in-law’s widow was living even in my own time, for I have often seen her and talked with her on this subject. Going on from Caesarea one comes to what was once a fair city but is now deserted called Pilgrim’s Castle, but in old times Assur.

[Adapted from Stewart 1895]

Works Cited

[...] 28 49-50
[...] 28 64-65

[Arsuf (Assur, Ashur)

Athlit (Castellum Peregrinorum, Castrum Peregrinorum, Pilgrims’ Castle, Petra Incisa)

Carmel, Mount

Dor

Jordan River]

[Cornelius, early Christian at Caesarea

De Horne, German knight

Peter the Apostle]

[Christian Bible

Christianity

Crusades

Geography

Medieval History

Natural Environment

Pilgrimage

Urban Topography]